{"id":7322,"date":"2010-09-22T07:56:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dollarstorecrafts.com\/2010\/09\/make-your-own-microwave-popcorn\/"},"modified":"2010-09-21T12:04:30","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T19:04:30","slug":"make-your-own-microwave-popcorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dollarstorecrafts.com\/2010\/09\/make-your-own-microwave-popcorn\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Your Own Microwave Popcorn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dollarstorecrafts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/microwavepopcorn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px;\" src=\"http:\/\/dollarstorecrafts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/microwavepopcorn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"252\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever made your own microwave popcorn? <strong>Maize in Montana<\/strong> has, and her microwave popcorn is cute! She shares her secrets for successful&#8211;and cute&#8211;DIY microwave popcorn over on her blog. Make personalized microwave popcorn as a fun kids&#8217; activity, or as part of a frugal movie night gift basket (you can pick up the basket and movie candy at the dollar store). [<a href=\"http:\/\/maizehutton.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/make-your-own-microwave-popcorn-supply.html\">how to make microwave popcorn<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>And since Maize shared all her popcorn memories (and secrets) on her blog, I&#8217;ll let you in on some of mine. My favorite trick right now is to air pop the popcorn and spray it with Crisco butter-flavored nonstick spray and then salt it. The spray smells like butter and gives you enough grease on your fingers to trick you into thinking you&#8217;re eating buttery popcorn, but the actual fat is negligible. If you&#8217;re used to super buttery popcorn, it will probably take you a bowl or two of this to readjust your palate, but this trick works for my family and completely removes the guilt for me.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Project Estimate:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brown paper bags, $1<\/li>\n<li>Popcorn kernels, $1 and up<\/li>\n<li>Masking tape, on hand<\/li>\n<li>Letter stamps and ink, on hand<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Total: $2<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=d5f79f86-442f-8bf7-b1f5-afae67f72d54\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever made your own microwave popcorn? Maize in Montana has, and her microwave popcorn is cute! She shares her secrets for successful&#8211;and cute&#8211;DIY microwave popcorn over on her blog. 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